Key facts
- Country
- Poland
- Voivodeship
- Silesian
- Seat
- Będzin
- Gminas
- Total 8 (incl. 4 urban) Będzin Czeladź Sławków Wojkowice Gmina Bobrowniki Gmina Mierzęcice Gmina Psary Gmina Siewierz
- Total
- 368.02 km (142.09 sq mi)
- Density
- 403.55/km (1,045.2/sq mi)
- Urban
- 109,694
- Rural
- 38,822
- Car plates
- SBE
- Website
- https://www.starostwo.bedzin.pl
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Będzin County (Polish: powiat będziński) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Silesian Voivodeship, southern Poland. It came into being on 1 January 1999 as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat and largest town is Będzin, which lies 13 kilometres (8 mi) north-east of the regional capital Katowice. The county contains four other towns: Czeladź, 3 km (2 mi) west of Będzin, Wojkowice, 7 km (4 mi) north-west of Będzin, Sławków, 20 km (12 mi) east of Będzin, and Siewierz, 18 km (11 mi) north-east of Będzin.
The town of Sławków, which became part of Będzin County in 2002 when it was transferred from Lesser Poland Voivodeship to Silesian Voivodeship, forms an exclave. It is separated from the rest of the county by the cities of Dąbrowa Górnicza and Sosnowiec.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Będzin County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.